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John McKercher
MemberDTPTools works as does Zevrix LinkOptimizer. Multi-Find/Change also works. Suitcase Fusion's automatic font activation also works. I've copied a few scripts over from verison 5 and they seemed to all work OK as well.
April 7, 2011 at 12:35 pm in reply to: Must InDesign and InCopy be on the same operating system? #59201MemberMany thanks Anne-Marie, that's exactly the sort of info I was after.
April 7, 2011 at 6:35 am in reply to: Must InDesign and InCopy be on the same operating system? #59197MemberInteresting. I'm assuming however if you were using postscriptt fonts you would not be able to work cross-platform, correct? Or perhaps you could do the text editing but as far as checking line endings that would have to be finalized in whichever environment would produce the final printer PDF.
MemberI've had this happen to me. I regularly work with 2-300 page documents that include lots of images, captions, tables, whatever. And it always seemed to me that if I added Grep styles into a couple of styles things slowed down. The minute I got rid of the styles by doing a search and applying the style things speeded up. It was as if everytime I tried to make a correction such as inserting some text the program had to search again for where the styles needed to get applied because all the text had shifted. Consequently I've used the feature sparingly on long documents. Too bad, it's a nice feature.
And this is on a fast machine with lots of RAM.
MemberThey are still in the pallette, just not in a “group” in the pallette. You can create style groups and place individual styles into these groups to organize your palette. But your TOC style cannot be in one of these groups or it will not export properly to your epub. It's probably a good practice to take all your styles out of their “groups” when exporting to an epub. Seems silly but it makes a difference apparently.
Sorry if I confused you by using the word “folder” instead of “group.” I see that the button refers to a style group but it has a folder icon and that's why I used the word folder.
I can't help you with your disappearing TOC…sorry.
Membersoulartist said:
Would you please be more specific on how you moved the TOC style file from what folder to where—as an example for me to follow.
Thanks.
I often organize my styles in folders in my paragraph styles pallette. I'll have a front matter, master pages, back matter and heads folders in my pallette to help things stay organized. I used to keep my TOC styles within a front matter folder. But if you do that, when you set up your InDesign-generated TOC and pick a TOC style or a head style that resides in a folder in your pallette, it will not generate your TOC properly in your epub.
So when it comes time to make you epub, just make sure that any styles you are using do not reside within a folder in your paragraph styles palette.
Hope that helps.
John
MemberI wasted several hours on a bright sunny Sunday trying to get a TOC to export properly when creating an ebook. It wasn't until I came across a line in the Adobe help system (it might have even been a comment rather than an actual entry in their system) telling me that the TOC would not export if the style used to define your TOC was in a folder in your style palette. It seemed like a ridiculous limitation to me but once I moved the chapter title style I was using to generate my TOC out of the folder it worked perfectly.
Very frustrating…
MemberI use Fusion 2 on OSX 10.6.4 and have no issues with either CS4 or CS5 (except for lack of auto activation plugins for CS5 which will arrive when they release version 3). Did you follow their best practices guide as far as where to store fonts, etc? I read their manual and set things up as suggested and have not had a problem. Perhaps it's an issue with a conflict with a system font.
MemberIn theory it sounded like a great idea but I found the upload speeds far too slow and the response time when viewing files online made it almost worthless (even when using the lowest resolution settings). Of course I was trying to upload a 200 page greyscale book project and maybe it was never meant for that purpose. It was far easier for me to upload a PDF to my FTP site and allow clients to download and view those offline.
MemberI'm not quite sure why you would want your footnotes tied to the baseline grid anyways. Aren't your footnotes smaller in size than your main text and therefore would you not want the leading of the footnotes to be tighter than the normal text? That's the way I've always done it. It is a pain to get them to align properly to the bottom of the page, I agree, but I wouldn't tie them to the grid.
Just a thought…
MemberI'm not quite sure why you would want your footnotes tied to the baseline grid anyways. Aren't your footnotes smaller in size than your main text and therefore would you not want the leading of the footnotes to be tighter than the normal text? That's the way I've always done it. It is a pain to get them to align properly to the bottom of the page, I agree, but I wouldn't tie them to the grid.
Just a thought…
MemberJust out of curiosity, are any of your pantone colours a pantone process colour instead of a spot? I've done this before, mixing up the suffix on a pantone colour so it's process instead of spot.
John
MemberJust out of curiosity, are any of your pantone colours a pantone process colour instead of a spot? I've done this before, mixing up the suffix on a pantone colour so it's process instead of spot.
John
MemberkjgEnergy: “As far a type distortion goes, do you mean horizontal and vertical scaling? If yes, I was taught in college that it is not acceptable to distort any type, ever.”
Actually, looking at your settings above, you are distorting your type. The third line in the justificaiton box is for Glyph Scaling, not Glyph Spacing. So using 98, 100, 101 will certainly distort your type.
I don't like using letter spacing either and that's why I only use -.1%, 0, -1%. Sometimes this tiny little bit is enough to allow InDesign better hypenation and avoid loose or tight lines.
MemberkjgEnergy: “As far a type distortion goes, do you mean horizontal and vertical scaling? If yes, I was taught in college that it is not acceptable to distort any type, ever.”
Actually, looking at your settings above, you are distorting your type. The third line in the justificaiton box is for Glyph Scaling, not Glyph Spacing. So using 98, 100, 101 will certainly distort your type.
I don't like using letter spacing either and that's why I only use -.1%, 0, -1%. Sometimes this tiny little bit is enough to allow InDesign better hypenation and avoid loose or tight lines.
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